Beyond Your News Feed: Understanding Contemporary Politics

In this episode, Professors Abigail Brooks, Director of PCs Women’s Studies Program, and Paul Herron, the PC Political Science Department’s Supreme Court expert, join Beyond Your News Feed host, William Hudson, to discuss the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s contributions to constitutional law. The discussion reviews Ginsburg’s historic contributions to expanding women’s rights in her career as a litigator beginning in the 1970s. We link these efforts on behalf of women’s equality to her own confrontation with the professional barriers women faced in her generation. These efforts continued after her appointments first to the DC Circuit Appeals Court and then the Supreme Court. Our conversation reviews her major contributions on the Court in her majority opinions but also in several significant dissenting opinions in cases involving women’s employment rights, voting rights, and affirmative action. Ginsburg also became a popular celebrity in her later years, a phenomenon that we also explore.

Show Notes

In this episode, Professors Abigail Brooks, Director of PCs Women’s Studies Program, and Paul Herron, the PC Political Science Department’s Supreme Court expert, join Beyond Your News Feed host, William Hudson, to discuss the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s contributions to constitutional law.   The discussion reviews Ginsburg’s historic contributions to expanding women’s rights in her career as a litigator beginning in the 1970s.  We link these efforts on behalf of women’s equality to her own confrontation with the professional barriers women faced in her generation.  These efforts continued after her appointments first to the DC Circuit Appeals Court and then the Supreme Court.  Our conversation reviews her major contributions on the Court in her majority opinions but also in several significant dissenting opinions in cases involving women’s employment rights, voting rights, and affirmative action. Ginsburg also became a popular celebrity in her later years, a phenomenon that we also explore. 

Creators & Guests

Host
Bill Hudson
Beyond Your News Feed: Understanding Contemporary Politics is a podcast of the Providence College Political Science Department. On the podcast, we provide analysis of political issues and events featuring the expertise of Providence College faculty members. Our episodes seek to offer in depth discussion of contemporary events that go beyond what typically is covered in the media. In particular, our guests draw on the most up to date research in political science and other fields to throw light on world events. Our episodes cover political events in all regions of the world and in the United States. The issues and events analyzed include elections, public policy, domestic and international crises, political ideologies, racial and ethnic relations, prominent political figures, and many other topics.

What is Beyond Your News Feed: Understanding Contemporary Politics?

Welcome to "Beyond Your News Feed: Understanding Contemporary Politics" a new podcast sponsored by the Providence College Political Science Department. Host William Hudson, Political Science Department Chair, and colleagues will provide expert analysis of current political events and issues, delving more deeply into their causes and consequences than can be found in typical media sources.